Knicks notes: Felton update

Felton update

This much we know about Raymond Felton and his strained right groin — it’s bad enough that he has missed five games since injuring himself Dec. 23 in Orlando, and there is no timetable for his return.

But any more details — how his recovery is going, if there ever was a timetable or a specific grade of the strain — were left out as he has mostly avoided speaking to reporters.

After initially saying that he wasn’t doing interviews, he spoke briefly Friday and added little.

"One day at a time," Felton said. "No information is going to be given out. One day at a time. That’s all I got for you."

Knicks coach Mike Woodson said Felton, who accompanied the team for the entire three-game Texas trip, would not play on the trip and needed to practice before taking the court again. Felton ran for the first time on this trip.

Asked again if that meant he was days or weeks away, he said, "Day to day. I’m day to day. … That’s all I got for you."

No recommendation

When Metta World Peace decided on the use of a platelet-rich plasma therapy procedure, scheduled for Monday, he said that he’d gotten a recommendation from Amar’e Stoudemire, who’d underwent the procedure himself.

But Stoudemire was very vague when asked about it.

He said that it wasn’t part of the procedure he went through this summer, noting, "I got ‘scoped this summer," referring to an arthroscopic clean-out of the left knee.

He then admitted that he had gone through the therapy once, but would not say when, answering only, "It’s not important." He also didn’t sound as if he gave a recommendation to anyone.

"I don’t know if it worked or not," he said. "I don’t know if it’s good. It’s up to each person."

Coach’s decision

Woodson admitted he was considering pulling J.R. Smith just before Smith delivered a pair of crucial buckets late in the Knicks’ win over the Spurs on Thursday.